Club career Born in
Rhodes, Skartados started his football career at local club
Rodos in 1975, aged 15. The next year, he joined the first team and after two seasons in the second division, they managed to get promoted to the top-tier
Alpha Ethniki in 1978. In the summer of 1982, he joined
PAOK and quickly became a first-team regular at the
White-blacks of the North. Although he was initially acquired by PAOK president
Giorgos Pantelakis to replace
Giannis Gounaris as a right
wing-back, Skartados shined as a
box-to-box midfielder who had good all-round abilities, skilled at both defending and attacking. Regarded as one of the greatest midfielders in club's history, Skartados wore the No 8 white-black jersey for ten seasons and won the league title in
1985. He is
PAOK 8th all-time appearance maker with 342 games in total (265 in the league) and 4th all-time goalscorer with 112 goals (84 in the league). In 1992, Skartados moved to
Iraklis and played for three seasons, making 94 league appearances and scoring 16 goals in total. He was named
PSAP Best Greek Player of
1994–95 season alongside
Giorgos Georgiadis of
Panathinaikos and
Michalis Kasapis of
AEK Athens. In 1995, he was acquired by
Olympiacos and won the
1997 league title playing as a
sweeper (libero). He ended his career in 1998, playing his last season for
Ialysos.
International career He had 26 caps for the
Greece national team between 1983 and 1992, scoring 3 goals. ==Career statistics==